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For those recently diagnosed with cancer, research may be too late. PRG provides essential care now, including healthy and easy to prepare meals, convenient rides to treatment, safe house cleaning supplies and educational and peer support. By helping people to alleviate the practical and emotional stresses associated with a cancer diagnosis, our clients are better able to focus on treatment and healing. Our services increase treatment compliance, improve nutrition and provide valuable emotional support. The need for our services is great: One in eight women will be impacted by breast cancer in her lifetime along with one in a thousand men. 

Pink Ribbon Good St. Louis served 34% more people in 2023. PRG STL provided 55,990 meals, gave 4,436 rides to treatment, 670 housecleaning kits and offered 64 in-person and virtual peer support events for St. Louis families. While we serve anyone regardless of income, 23% of St. Louis clients suffer from food insecurity and 22% have ride insecurity and do not know how they will get to their doctors' appointments.

PRG's two signature programs - Simply FightTM and No Age, No StageTM - align closely with EPHT's desire to support community-based organizations that are actively addressing issues of health care equity. Both Simply Fight TM (for breast cancer stages 0-3 or gynecological cancer stages 0-2) and No Age, No Stage TM (breast cancer stage 4 and metastatic or gynecological cancer stage 3-4) provide direct services at no cost to our clients. Clients may choose any combination of meals, rides, house cleaning essentials and peer support programs to meet their needs. Specifically, PRG offers:
• Three meals, per week, per person, for the client and each member of the household. Individual healthy meals are provided by Fresh N Lean, a national delivery meal company for a period of 8-24 weeks, depending on the stage and type of cancer
• Up to 30 free, door-to-door round trip rides to any medical appointment related to the diagnosis (labs, follow ups, chemotherapy, radiation, etc.) via Uber Health
• All-natural, non-toxic, fragrance-free house cleaning essentials, provided by Branch Basics, and a lightweight Tacony vacuum to maintain a safe, clean environment for immunocompromised clients
• Peer support, offered both in-person and virtually and targeted to the specific concerns of breast and gynecological cancer patients

Since we began offering free direct services in 2012, PRG has never turned an eligible client away from services due to a lack of funding. In fact, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we continued offering free medical rides, shifted away from in-home cleanings due to the concerns of immunocompromised patients (instead providing the all-natural cleaning kits we offer currently), and actually increased the number of meals from 3 to 5 per person per week to meet the needs of our vulnerable clients.

Our tagline "No One Travels this Road Alone" is more than a catchphrase; rather, it represents our commitment to ensuring that all clients, regardless of socio-economic factors, can benefit from our assistance.